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I think it a Black Woman's Problem. For the most part they have always been atracted to the agressive Male who is in many cases a take-charge type individuial who is mostly controlling. The Women think this typeof personality os good until they start getting beat on, but by that time they are in too deep, and are afraid of the Man.

Many Women don't realize that it might not be a good fix if a Male is up on her all the time to establish a relationship. A quality Male will usually give her space to "breathe". Women should avoid relationships where their partner is trying to controll every aspect of their life, and is always critical of what she do or don't do. For the most part, a Controlling Mate is an abusive Mate, and they should be avoided at all cost.

When are we going to stop talking the Electric Car to death. Why not have a morotoroum on the Talk, and get some out here on the street that the average person can afford, that would solve the whole problem. First they were to be introduced in early 2010, and now its late 2010, and there are only a few in a few places.

As long as we have had electric Golf Carts in this society, we should have had several electric cars 10 or 15 years ago. So enough with all the talk, and they should put a Car out here that sells for $20k or less that would be subsidized by the government so everybodu who wanted one could get one. They could make the $50k vehicles for those who could afford them, but they have to get enough moderate priced cars out here to make the entire program successful, Charging Stations, and new dealers, the whole program.

Foreclosures are a by-product of a bad economy which produces unemployment. Extending unemployment benefits or helping pay parts of ones mortgage are only temporary, stop-gap measures. People need permanent employment that will allow them to pay all of their bills.

However, most people in the Housing Business knew Housing Values were being inflated during the Boom years, but since those in power were making a lot of money, no one said anything, and now we all have to pay for this fraudulant activity.

Many people expect the Banks to take the Loss and write the Mortgage Balances down. However they fail to consider that the Bank paid the seller of the property the full sale price of the property. In otherwords, the Bank lent $100k and now the value has dropped to $70, so it's expected that the Bank should take a $30k loss, multiplied by thousands of Mortgages?

I'm not saying that the Bank was not responsible for the value or the Property or the amount of the Mortgage being inflated to $100k in the first place, but this is where we are at today. So it appears as if the Fed's decided to "quell" the status quo to keep from acquiring all those bad loans. However they didn't put in any safeguards to keep the same thing from happening again. At the same time we wont see Home ownership at the Rate we have seen it in the past. Low Income Purchasers will have a difficult time getting a Loan in the future.

Sammy: Your Post was the funniest i've seen on this topic. You and everyone else junps off trashing LeBron for going for a better deal in Miami, and now you are jumping on the Browns Bandwagon. The Browns have won nothing in years, that i can remember, and they haven't acquired any talent to do much better in the upcoming seasons.

They hired a Washed up Holgram who came in and fired everybody but the one who needed to be fired, Mileti. His new hires included a washed up quarterback, who had one of his worst years as a Pro last year. So you think they are going someplace? If they win three or four games they are lucky.

The White News Media has been on Lebron because they think like the Owner of the Cav's, that LeBron was a property of theirs, even though he was a "Free Agent". Lebron gave the Cav's the Option to bid on his services just like he gave all the other Teams, and Miami won, so the Cav's should move on.

Or did the Cav's Ownership expect Lebron to take less money to play in Cleveland. He took less in Salary Cap Money, but he got more in Endorsement Money, which might be the big money. There is also a rumor that Lebron is buying Pat Rileys $50M house in Coral Gables. I don't know if he's paying that much in Florida's depressed Housing Market or not. However in some places in florida Housing are going for 15-$.20 on the dollar. Plus the fact that LeBron just finished his house in Summit County, and some say that was a 5-$7M project.

Anyway, Lebron is gone, and Cleveland and it's Owner should not expect other Players to play for them for less money than they can get elsewhere. That's like giving away the future of themselves and their family. I don't think the owners do that.

You have to assume that Mr Forbes 10,000 number in a 150 square foot area is an "off the top of his head" estimate. For you to accept that as Fact, it's questionable as to who the Moron might be. However, does the 150sq include just sidewalk area, or does it also include the streets, or the land where all the buildings and Clubs sit?

Don't get caught up in the hype, Fast Food Firms are hurting from a bad economy just like everyone else. However the fact of the matter is that businesses have kept their wages supressed, but have allowed their prices to creep upward. Consequently, with fewer people working and making less money, there are less dollars chasing more goods and services from abroad that are not really dropping in price. You might find a few of these price games played here and there, but for the most parts, most people can't afford an Angus Burger at $4, when not too long ago they could get a similar Sandwich for $2 or so. So the Retailers haven't reduced their prices, but they have somewhat juggled their prices to give the appearance of a lesser price. However they will still have to chase fewer dollars to get their products sold.

So I expect a lot more small retailers to fail in the coming months and years, because individuals making good wages are not coming back. A good example is the new hires at GM (Green Economy) are being paid $14 per hour while those working along side them are paid 28-$30 per hour. Some people seem to think the economy is in a "Down Cycle", but I think it's more realistic to assume that our economic structure is experiences fundamental changes, and headed in a direction of a "Third World" Country where there is just the Rich and the Poor, but no middle class.

The Recent Wall Street Deregulation of the financial system that cause the most recent Crash of our Banks and the Stock Markets could resurface again if the same people who allowed the conditions to develop that caused the Crash end up taking political power again.

This appears to be more of a Political Disbursement than economic. $150,000 wouldn't be enough to do much of anything in the area of supporting a Business program. What Minority Businesses needs mostly from the State is the inclusion into their normal purchasing of their goods and services. The Governor have to devise ways to break up these old-boy networks where the Contracts keeps going to the same Business Firms year after year.

It's expected that most of the expertise will be among those that have been given all the Contracts over the years, but that is what has to e broken down. The Governor has to move people around to create diversity in all those Departments where goods and services are purchased to eliminate Purchasing Agents being too familiar with the Contractors. In some cases these individuals are even related. All that stuff has to be broken up, so to make a long story short, the $150,000 disbursements doesn't have anything to do with Minority Business, even if the Governor gave $150,000 to one minority Business it wouldn't mean nothing, what could he do with it, pay a couple of light bills, and then go looking again for places to sell his goods and services.

Is this Portman Guy trying to re-invent himself. He was the Trade Rep for the Bush Administration. Plus the fact he served in many capacities in the Federal Government for short periods of time as if he didn't fit in anywhere. He is the main reason most of our Jobs are in China now, he help to send them there. If he didn't he, as Trade Director didn't do anything to help.

These Republicans represent an unintelligent Base nof Voters who don't nknow that these are the people who put this Country in the position that it's in today, and the current Administrations are trying to get us out of this situation, and it will take some time.

As an African American Newspaper the Call N Post should be in the middle of this New Energy Technology, and how, and if African Americans are playing a part. What Training Programs are available, and what employment opportunities are currently available in this Business Environment. In a City where 50% of the Residents are African Americans, we have very little input on whats going on. It's always a bunch a "White Boys" deciding what everybody else is suppose to do, but wnen we end up with a high Crime Rate, excessive Poverty, and a 50% Unemployment Rate, one or two of these so called Leaders start looking at each other asking, what happened, like they care.

I think there are two programs involved in acquiring Urban Property for future development in Cuyahoga County. This might be the HUD Program, but I think there is also a Program that was imminating from the County Auditor Group where they were suppose to create open Spaces, and Industrial use properties, and Parks. But I don't think they had housing in their plan. I think their primary interest was to clean the Resident out and stop the recycling of the same low income individuals that were there before. If there is no economic activility created with the housing, the new housing will soon revert to what it was before, rapid depreciation.

The News Media jumped on Dan Gilbert's Bandwaggon when his open Letter critized LeBron's decision to leave, and they piled on Jesse Jackson when he made his point about Gilbert's Letter sounding like he was LeBron's Slavemaster.

However Rev Jackson was right, Gilbert disrespected the League's free Agency's Policy which allowed LeBron to do what he did. As the Commissioner indicated, LeBron and the other Players didn't violate any League Rules or anything, so Stern had to fine Gilbert $100K.

Gilbert lost it for a minute, thinking LeBron was his property. While all the time he was a free agent who did give the Cav's the opportunity to submit offers along with all the other teams that were interested., and I guess the Cav's offer wasn't the best offer.

In my personal opinion I think the Cav's were at a disadvantage in this process. Dan Gilbert is Wealthy, but I think he proved to be a lightweight when it can to matching up with what Riley and the Heat threw at him. I think there is much more to this deal than what appears now, and Gilbert couldn't have matched it anyway.

The first part is the outside endorsements where LeBron stopped and signed a batched of papers at the William Morris Agency in Conneticutt prior to going to Miami. LeBron keeps talking about his Agent, but the agency that has represented all three players since the Olympics is CAA which is a Subsidary of the Williams Morris Agency, if i'm not mistaken. Plus they say there is a deal pending on Riley's $49M Mansion in Coral Gables that LeBron is suppose to be moving into..

This wheeling dealing procedure has shed some new light on the so call "Salary Gap" set-up in the NBA, and how effective it really is in allowing teams to maintain a certain equality, while not having any knowledge or control of deals outside the Leagues jurisdiction. I think we will see major changes in the net "Collective Marketing" Agreement.

Michael Jordan also made a statement about LeBron Deal when he indicated that he was more concerned with defeating other players than joining them. However, Jordan has a person interest since he just bought the Charlotte Hornets with every penny he had. Now it's possibly that his investment will decline, because if the league doesn't change anything the system will go back to what it was before when the "Big Markets" will have the advantages to put together the best teams.

I found it kinda strange that a writer from an African American Newspaper didn't mention how much the African American Community, and it's people have benefitted from Teams with mostly members of their Race. The LeBron's and the other Players make big money, but most other African Americans can't even afford a Ticket to the Games.

African American earn very little of the money from Jersey's, Food, and other sales, but we are acting like we are the one's who are making all the money from LeBron being a Cav. I doubt if LeBron spends much of his Salary with African American Businesses, if any at all.

These High Profile Afrifcan American Athletes are not very significant to our Community, since their earnings benefits few Africans Americans. This Sports Activity is mostly relegated to the White and Well-to-do Community. Those who can afford the Tickets, and buy the other stuff. That includes few of us.

It's kinda silly that Minority Media are taking any Administration's Word about what they are doing for Minority Businesses when anybody can walk out on the street at any time and observe various Construction or Infrastructure Projects and see no Blacks. And when it comes to doing business with Minority Contracftors they are talking about foreigners who just came here a few years ago, and got themselves certified as Minority Business Enterprises. It seems as if many Asian Indians are transferring their Wealth to the U.S. and buying up many types of Business Enterprises, and creating many others. They buy small hotels and bring in all of their relatives. The Fed's historically have included these type of businesses as Minority Businesses, even though some principles aren't even U. S. Citizens. However, the average person don't think of them as such. Many of the H-1B employee's who got laid off during the economic downturn ended up creating businesses and got government contracts also, both State and federal.

I didn't make much sense to leave the GM in place, since he was most responsible for putting the team together that couldn't win in the Play-off's. However just appointing his assistant to replace him is an indication that Gilbert was just interested in running his own team. Now Gilbert is interested in hiring Izzo, but he want's to interview Byron Scott to act like he's wanted another Black Coach while he has supposely made a firm offer to Izzo. This move by the Cav's is similar to what the NFL does with the "Rooney Rule", where most teams now are making a mochery of that rule, and in the NFL they do it while having no intention of hiring a Black Coach. It hasn't reached this level in the NBA, as of yet. But they are reaching back in history to come up with some strange people to do their coaching, like Doug Collins,and Utah has held on to their relic about 20 years while not wining any title, but Black Coaches get Fired after two or three years with good records. I expect Fratillo(sp) to resurface somewhere again soon, since Jordan decided to keep Larry Brown, but maybe he had coached for most of the other Teams or owners, and nonew were interested.

Contrary to LeBron's Fan support, the "Sign N Trade" is a viable option for the Cav's if they are truly thinking of spending that kind of money on Izzo, a College Coach who probably knows little of the uniqueness of individuals players in the NBA, and I think thats critical for a Coach who fired the former Coach because he didn't win a title. It seems as if Gilbert would be thinking of hiring a Coach who could get him past where Brown left off.

Considering the fact that Izzo would be a "Novis" Coach in the NBA, he would take a couple of years to learn the players in the League, and to analize the coaching stype of the many coaches he will be competiting against.

Considering how the Cav's finished the last three years, with' LeBron, it's doubtful they would improve or get a Title the next year or two with him on the team anyway. Considering they wouldn't be in a position to add any new "quality" players to the Roster. A sign N Trade for two top starters, and one quality player coming off the bench could make they a contender. As I just said, dependng on LeBron alone doen't appear to be a road to a Title. They need a quality Point Guard who can run the Offence and penetrate. They need a "Bruser" who can score 15+ PPG and get 10 RPG, consistently. The Cavs are not tough enough on the "Block" to be a contender. They are not consistently aggressive, LeBron will not force himself inside to get his opponent in foul trouble, and possibly get the N-1.

The Cav's and the Lakers are similar, both teams are soft teams, they are not tough enough to win the tough games. Boston is not as talented as the Lakers, but they can "out tough" them, and they might beat LA for the title. Boston is just agressive, and they keep the pressure on, but they are old and less talented than most of their opponents. I remember in that Magic Series where Kevin pounded Howard on his Arm with his fist, two times, and the Ref only called a regular foul after the second hit. He should have been evicted from the game for hitting an opponent with a closed fist.

Few players would have attempted something like that, but Boston tries to intemidate their opponents in that manner. In that incedent an oppotent is suppose to be able to put his hand on you if the offensive player doesn't have the ball going to the basket, and Kevin didn't have the Ball headed to the Basket, he just decided to punch Howard because he didn't like the idea of Howard Measuring him like that, which is legal. The Cav's don't have a mentality like that, but you have to be tough and agressive to win a Championship.

Many observers believed that Brown didn't use his Players properly, and it was easy to get in his "Doghouse", and to the detriment of the team. It appeared as if he would put a player at the end of the bench based on something he did, or didn't do in a previous game, while not using the player to give the team a chance to win the current game. I don't understand that logic, other teams do it also, but they still have to pay the player, don't they? They didn't suspend him, so I don't understand what that means. They end up paying the player for not working.

However The Cav's biggest weakness was that it didn't have enough quality players to support LeBron, and that was a problem with the drafting and trading which was mostly the responsibility of the GM. Before they got Jamerson I don't think the GM acquired any player with a history of a 20ppg or 10rpg average to support LeBron's production.

All the Pundits often state that LeBron has to get others involved. That sound alright, but in the process he is delaying his production to the end of the game so his non-productive team-mates can be productive. So many of the Cav's game were won in the 4th quarter, no solid balanced agressive play over 4 quarters.

If the Team was productive in the first quarter, they usually falterd in the 2nd half, and in some cases they barely won. I predicted last year and this year that they wouldn't win a Championship, they are just not tough enough. They don't have enough toughness on the "Block", and some players can intimidate LeBron defensively, and make him shy away from going to the hole when it's necessary.

LeBron can't keep missing Jumpshots at crucial times in the game and allow his opponents to get easy transition buckets. LeBron will not force himself inside to try and get the Bucket, the N-1, and get his opponent in foul trouble. LeBron has to keep going inside, even if he don't get the call. He has to keep the pressure on them, but he doesn't, consistently.

He likes to drive the lane when it a one on one TV highlight thingy, but not when he should be trying to get the defenders hand caught in the rim while trying to block his shot. Or if the defender want's to take a charge, let him take a real charge, and if you accidentally land with those size 20's on his forehead, the defender won't be flopping too many times. LeBron has to stop playing like his opponents are the Toughguy. He has to let them know that they have to take some licks too. It ain't a one way street.

However, if you play soft, teams like Boston will beat you down. They also have the Ref's scared by complaining afterever call against them. This is in hope that the Ref will be scared to call all the fouls against them, and they will have the edge at the end. An older experienced team like Boston try to play mind games, and use intimidation to defeat their opponents.

Like last night, LA didn't fall for the intimidation. It was Kevin who ended up getting intimidated, and they limited his productivity. The so called Soft Player Gasol ended up being the intimidator on the Block, at least for game one last night, but it's a 7 game series, and LA has a history of having up and down games, so we will have to wait and see.

I'm not concerned with the racial profiling aspect of this Law, all i'm concerned with are the illegals who have been able to penetrate our Borders for many years, and contrary to what some say, we don't know who's coming into the Country at any given time.

All we know is that they are creating a strain on our System of Government that we are not able to manage. We have allowed these illegals to depress our wage scale, flood our Schools, Hospitals, and other Institutions, and the System can't handle it financially. Look what it has done for the Budget of California, and eventually it will bring the System down.

We have allowed Businesses to uses this "Cheap" Labor to destroy our way of life, and our ability to earn a quality wage. It was once said that they take Jobs that Americans wont do, well that's a Myth. They also drive Trucks, and operate heavy Construction Equipment. Many of these jobs Blacks have never been able to get, but now illegals can get them.

So now we have a lot of Blacks running around as though they just got off the "Turnip Truck". However Black Politicians fail to anything about Black unemployment being twice that of Whites, but they are interested in illegal who can't vote, yet. But I guess they expect to get the Legal Vote of their relatives. These Black Leaders are so concerned with upholding the illegals, their interest, and their kind, but none of then even give Blacks the time of day. Nor do Latino Busdinesses hire Blacks, and none shop in Bladk Businesses.

In some California Cities these Lation's are trying to run Blacks out of Town, and make it a Latino City. But just like Blacks did Auturo(sp) Davis a few days ago in Alabama who was running for Governor, Blacks voted against him and supported the "White Boy". If Obama don't watch it, he could end up the same way since he's already going downhill. Your support has to be with what brung you.

I'm kinda confused about the location of the Garden, I was under the impression that East Blvd in that area (formerly Liberty Blvd) was renamed Martin Luther King Blvd. Plus the fact that St Clair Avenue runs East and West, and East Blvd runs north and south, so how can the Garden be between the two? They run different ways.

I don't know where the Garden is located, but the directions should state between St Clair and Wade Park on the West side of MLK, or between Wade Park and Superior, or between Wade Park and E. 105th, or between E. 105th and Chester. You should also indicate what highly visable Garden it's also near. Just an off handed suggestion.

I don't understand why this newer software has to make it more difficult for someone to post. It seems to me that you would want someone to post comments or visit your site, and with as little difficulty as possible.

When I sign-in, the dialog box don't indifcate submit, or nothing, I have to hit the return key, and the internet explorer box pops up. Then it goes back to the top of the page rather than to the Comment Box I came from.

After the comment there is no link or box indicating submit or send. I have to move my pointer around until if notice a change (an arrow), but no message. There seem to be two of these change areas near the bottom right outside the comment box, but none offer any message to indicate what they are. So I click on one and it brings up my comment review, but if I click on the other it will post the comment without a review. It my understanding that this is a security feature to keep a non-human from posting a comment, but for a lot of reasons, many would not even bother to post a comment if they have to be bothered with that type if agony.

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